Watch Dogs - Ubisoft's Third Person Shooter

All I keep getting is freezing about 5 minutes in, everytime I have to validate my files just for it to do it again 1 hour in! This is getting ridiculous.
 
deblow said:
Try it in window mode or borderless
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Lasted longer but crashed after 10 minutes.

Tried turning off everything and put it all on low, so far I might just uninstall this pos, Splinter Cell Blacklist was the same crashing on intro, and I reinstalled that! Ubisoft are not getting me buying any more of their games.
 
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Doogles said:
All I keep getting is freezing about 5 minutes in, everytime I have to validate my files just for it to do it again 1 hour in! This is getting ridiculous.
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I had this, I could end up in a constant loop of validation, and everything I tried did nothing, in fact it got to a point where the main character was floating in space, 1000ft below the city, and all the cars would come falling down..very surreal! And then crash to desktop, with no gameplay.

Uninstalled the game and deleted all files, and started again. And it works!

Some files that downloaded must have been corrupted, and even tho it tried validating them, it must have never been able to fix them.

Gotta say I'm really getting into the game, think its a pretty cool game, esp with the graphical mods applied.

Mick
 
FlyingFish said:
I had this, I could end up in a constant loop of validation, and everything I tried did nothing, in fact it got to a point where the main character was floating in space, 1000ft below the city, and all the cars would come falling down..very surreal! And then crash to desktop, with no gameplay.

Uninstalled the game and deleted all files, and started again. And it works!

Some files that downloaded must have been corrupted, and even tho it tried validating them, it must have never been able to fix them.

Gotta say I'm really getting into the game, think its a pretty cool game, esp with the graphical mods applied.

Mick
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Alright it's nice to hear someone else had the problem and fixed it, might uninstall it tonight and re-download awhile I sleep :)

Thanks for the advice.
 
deblow said:
People have had plenty of problems with this game, some still need fixing.
Hope your reinstall works out for you
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I have been reading and some people have been deleting the Gamersprofile under my documents/mygames/Watch_Dogs, going to try that and see how that goes before the reinstall :)

Think deleting the gamersprofile works, but then I have to play it at 1080p with all the settings on what Ubis**t want, I am not happy.

EDIT: Nope don't think that works either.
 
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Just sent one massive rant to Ubisoft, no bad language but just saying how unhappy I am that this game + Splinter Cell Blacklist can run properly, Blacklist I never even got past the intro cutscene lmao.
 
Doogles said:
Just sent one massive rant to Ubisoft, no bad language but just saying how unhappy I am that this game + Splinter Cell Blacklist can run properly, Blacklist I never even got past the intro cutscene lmao.
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Re: Blacklist, that could be a sound issue? I know I had to change my audio from DTS to 24bit 96,000hz to get the cutscenes to play properly.

The game was fine for me though, and I have an R9 290x. Ran really nicely on Ultra @ 1080p.

Pretty good game actually. The stealth (getting perfect Ghost scores, anyway) was pretty difficult.
 
VincentHanna said:
Re: Blacklist, that could be a sound issue? I know I had to change my audio from DTS to 24bit 96,000hz to get the cutscenes to play properly.

The game was fine for me though, and I have an R9 290x. Ran really nicely on Ultra @ 1080p.

Pretty good game actually. The stealth (getting perfect Ghost scores, anyway) was pretty difficult.
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Okay thanks I will try changing my sound when it comes to trying to get Blacklist working again. Reinstalled Watch_Dogs and so far it has ran for 2 hours and 32 minutes so might be okay, still expecting it to pop up with that message though :mad:
 
What are your specs? Any issues with other (ubisoft/non-ubisoft) games?

If you want I can ask my mate to upload his gamerprofile.xml that he tweaked to run without stuttering? It's worth a shot at least.

EDIT: Actually, just make a copy of your gamerprofile.xml and paste this into the original and see if these graphical settings at least allow you to start it up (also turn off AA to fix ghosting if/when it occurs):

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<CustomQuality>
<quality ResolutionX="1280" ResolutionY="720" EnvironmentQuality="high" AntiPortalQuality="pc" PostFxQuality="medium" TextureQuality="pc" TextureResolutionQuality="medium" WaterQuality="high" ParaboloidReflectionQuality="high" DepthPassQuality="pc" VegetationQuality="high" TerrainQuality="high" GeometryQuality="high" LodDitheringQuality="pc" ShadowQuality="high" ShadingQuality="medium" RoadQuality="pc" EditorQuality="pc" ParticlesQuality="high" DeferredFxQuality="console" HDR="1" SuperSampling="0" HighPrecisionNormal="1" RenderSplashes="1" RenderRain="0" MotionBlurQuality="pc" SSAOQuality="hbao+_high" DepthOfFieldQuality="off" AntiAliasingQuality="fxaa" id="_runtime" />
</CustomQuality>
</RenderProfile>
<NetworkProfile EnableNatTraversal="1" VoiceChatEnabled="1" OnlineEnginePort="9000" OnlineServicePort="9001" LanHostBroadcastPort="9004" LanClientBroadcastPort="9005" ScanFreePorts="1" ScanPortRange="1000" ScanPortStart="9000" />
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<AutoConsoleCommands />
</GameProfile>
<RealTreeProfile />
<EngineProfile>
<PhysicConfig QualitySetting="High" />
</EngineProfile>
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<Action_Hack Device="%$646CA0E7" Control="%$F500AE27" />
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<Vehicle_Handbrake Device="%$FFFFFFFF" Control="%$FFFFFFFF" />
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Wow, just wow.

So I was loling at all the "this games is pap" posts whilst playing with my lowly 7950. Rain and night looked lush and the daytime was pretty sweet. Lovely looking game.

Then, spent £600 on a 780Ti and it now looks like something rendered on a C64. I can finally see what the tears are all about. Go figure.
 
I've just started playing this game and I really like it. Heard lots of horror stories, but never had any issues myself. I don't have the best GPU, but it does the job.

Just playing the DLC missions and having loads of fun blowing ***** up ;)
 
bradUK said:
Wow, just wow.

So I was loling at all the "this games is pap" posts whilst playing with my lowly 7950. Rain and night looked lush and the daytime was pretty sweet. Lovely looking game.

Then, spent £600 on a 780Ti and it now looks like something rendered on a C64. I can finally see what the tears are all about. Go figure.
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There's no way that the game physically looks worse on a 780Ti unless you have other issues.
 
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